I agree, all of those are good approaches which is, presumably why VdL has made several announcements about defence spending in the last week (€800bn euro or something today - only saw headline havent read it yet).

Europe does have petroleum (although technically EU doesn't) both Scotland & Norway have a fair bit so they don't HAVE to buy Russian or American, and Australia & Canada are definitely still allied. Middle east are dodgy but most of them aren't part of the fascist conspiracy.

The problem with the last point is the same reason it's hard to get a soldier in a war zone to quit smoking, if you're imminently likely to get shot, worrying about lung cancer down the line is hard to focus on.

I think we definitely need to push hard to decarbonise, but not at the expense of being dead before getting there. Particularly not when the US is actively seeking to reverse its climate change efforts and recarbonise.